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From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
To: Steffen Trumtrar <s.trumtrar@pengutronix.de>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/11] ARM: socfpga: Add FPGA programming command
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 13:09:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130916110914.GZ30088@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130916104041.GB16832@pengutronix.de>

Hi Steffen,

On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 12:40:41PM +0200, Steffen Trumtrar wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 10:48:17AM +0200, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> > This adds a simple socfpga specific 'fpga' command to load a firmware
> > to the FPGA. For the moment this is enough, but should we get more
> > FPGA support it might be a good idea to introduce some generic framework
> > and command.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
> > ---
> >  arch/arm/mach-socfpga/Kconfig                     |   5 +
> >  arch/arm/mach-socfpga/Makefile                    |   1 +
> >  arch/arm/mach-socfpga/fpga.c                      | 422 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  arch/arm/mach-socfpga/include/mach/socfpga-regs.h |   2 +
> >  4 files changed, 430 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100644 arch/arm/mach-socfpga/fpga.c
> > 
> 
> Why did you chose to have an extra command for fpga loading instead of having
> just a (block)device? Do you see any future advantage in that or is it just
> because of the port from u-boot? I know that they need an extra fpga command, but
> they also have an extra mmcload command and stuff.

Main reason was that I was unsure how good a block device will be when
we get a different firmware format to load (rbf vs. sof vs. something
else)

Sascha

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-16 11:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-16  8:48 [PATCH] Altera SoCFPGA support Sascha Hauer
2013-09-16  8:48 ` [PATCH 01/11] ARM: invalidate caches thoroughly Sascha Hauer
2013-09-16  8:48 ` [PATCH 02/11] clk: of: introduce of_clk_src_simple_get Sascha Hauer
2013-09-16  8:48 ` [PATCH 03/11] of: partition: Check for valid partition name Sascha Hauer
2013-09-16  8:48 ` [PATCH 04/11] serial: ns16550: Add compatible entry for snps, dw-apb-uart Sascha Hauer
2013-09-16  8:48 ` [PATCH 05/11] clk: Add Altera SoCFPGA clk support Sascha Hauer
2013-09-16  8:48 ` [PATCH 06/11] scripts: Add Altera SoCFPGA mkimage support Sascha Hauer
2013-09-16  8:48 ` [PATCH 07/11] ARM: Add Altera SoCFPGA support Sascha Hauer
2013-09-17 14:46   ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2013-09-18  8:06     ` Sascha Hauer
2013-09-16  8:48 ` [PATCH 08/11] ARM: socfpga: Add FPGA programming command Sascha Hauer
2013-09-16 10:40   ` Steffen Trumtrar
2013-09-16 11:09     ` Sascha Hauer [this message]
2013-09-16 11:43       ` Steffen Trumtrar
2013-09-17 14:51   ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2013-09-16  8:48 ` [PATCH 09/11] ARM: SoCFPGA: Add Terasic SoCkit board support Sascha Hauer
2013-09-17 14:49   ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2013-09-16  8:48 ` [PATCH 10/11] ARM: SoCFPGA: Add EBV SoCrates " Sascha Hauer
2013-09-16  8:48 ` [PATCH 11/11] ARM: Altera SoCFPGA: Add defconfig files Sascha Hauer

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